A Miami judge has ruled that a taped confession made by Derek Rosa, the Hialeah teenager accused of brutally stabbing his mother to death in 2023, can be used at his trial when it starts at the end of the month.
Attorneys for 15-year-old Rosa had asked the court to suppress his confession, arguing that he didn’t fully understand his right to remain silent when he spoke with investigators after the incident.
CBS News Miami’s Chelsea Jones was in court when the motion was denied on Tuesday afternoon.
Emotions run high before motion was denied
Emotions were running high inside the courtroom before the motion was denied. Attorneys for Rosa had accused the prosecution of lying while in court while objecting to a characterization of a 911 call that was used. The 911 call is one of the two confessions that the defense had hoped to have suppressed…